Lycra shirts leave Barnes in a tight corner

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ON TO the pitch they came, 15 of the biggest men in England — mighty warriors dressed in the sort of tight, white, Lycra tops seen on male ice skaters and teenage girls on the pull in Newcastle. Just a denim miniskirt and some scuffed white stilettos and England’s finest could have danced around their handbags all night then pulled a couple of blokes with tattooed knuckles on the way home.

Yes, on Saturday, on a balmy evening in Marseilles, Lycra and rugby union were introduced. It was love at first sight. England and France stormed on to the pitch